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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The slides and recordings from FOSS4G UK 2020 organised by volunteers of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation’s UK Chapter</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><a href="https://uk.osgeo.org/" style="margin:0px" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">OSGeo:UK</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">are
 at </span><a href="https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4gukonline2020/sessions.html" style="margin:0px" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4gukonline2020/sessions.html</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">and
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Participants from over 75 countries attended the online conference on 17th June 2020. I thank all volunteers of OSGeo:UK for their work and efforts that made
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Recordings from FOSS4G Global conferences  (over the years) are also made available thanks to  Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) – German National Library
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The full academic proceedings and individual papers from the  FOSS4G Global conferences  [Starting  from Nottingham FOSS4G </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><a href="http://2013.foss4g.org/" style="margin:0px" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline">http://2013.foss4g.org</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">]
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 at </span><a href="https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/" style="margin:0px" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline">https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/</span></a></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Academic Tracks of FOSS4G conferences has been key in helping us share and expand Open Geospatial Science ideas globally. I am grateful to all colleagues
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am grateful to all colleagues who</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">contribute
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